ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,792, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to AutoForm Engineering GmbH (Pfaffikon, Switzerland).
"Method for analyzing a result of a simulation of a manufacturing process" was invented by Waldemar Kubli (Pfaffikon SZ, Switzerland) and Andreas Krainer (Pfaffikon SZ, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for analysing a result of a simulation of a manufacturing or deformation process, comprises retrieving the result of the simulation, comprising at least the geometry of the part (2) and stress tensors (23) in the part (2) caused by the forming process; for one or more starting points (32) in a critical reg...